Every now and then someone I know will say to me “I found out about this neat weird animal and immediately thought of you,” to which I’ll reply “cool, tell me about it.” So I thought to myself It might be a good idea to make a handy form...

According to my account history, I opened my very first CafePress shop in 2003. That’s not a typo— I am, at least in internet terms a) an old lady, and b) a “veteran” at these Print-On-Demand marketplaces. I closed my CP shop this year and pulled my...

Since the launch of the Runcible Owl, people have been asking me what “runcible” means. It’s a nonsense word that first appears in a poem by Edward Lear called “The Owl and the Pussycat,” who get married by a wild pig on a tropical...

This is a roundup of all the neat new things I’ve discovered this month. Podcast: Holy F*cking Science A new podcast by the inimitable Hank Green and SciShow crew, HFS is an hour-ish-long podcast where grown adults talk about the science news that excites them,...

A couple of weeks ago, I painted up some animals for my friend Garrett’s son’s nursery. I took a timelapse of the process: I actually designed the characters digitally, and applied a transfer to the plywood to paint over. It worked out pretty well. I want...